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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Jesper Steen Møller
*
* Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1
* with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
* copy of the License at
*
* http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
* either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the
* License.
*/
package org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Map;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentReader;
import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
/**
*
* @author Jesper Steen Møller
*/
public interface MetadataExtracter
{
/**
* Provides the approximate accuracy with which this extracter can extract
* metadata for the mimetype.
* <p>
*
* @param sourceMimetype the source mimetype
* @return Returns a score 0.0 to 1.0. 0.0 indicates that the extraction
* cannot be performed at all. 1.0 indicates that the extraction can
* be performed perfectly.
*/
public double getReliability(String sourceMimetype);
/**
* Provides an estimate, usually a worst case guess, of how long an
* extraction will take.
* <p>
* This method is used to determine, up front, which of a set of equally
* reliant transformers will be used for a specific extraction.
*
* @return Returns the approximate number of milliseconds per transformation
*/
public long getExtractionTime();
/**
* Extracts the metadata from the content provided by the reader and source
* mimetype to the supplied map.
* <p>
* The extraction viability can be determined by an up front call to
* {@link #getReliability(String)}.
* <p>
* The source mimetype <b>must</b> be available on the
* {@link org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentAccessor#getMimetype()} method
* of the reader.
*
* @param reader the source of the content
* @param destination the destination of the extraction
* @throws ContentIOException if an IO exception occurs
*/
public void extract(ContentReader reader, Map<QName, Serializable> destination) throws ContentIOException;
}